Sunday, February 21
On Sunday, February 21, Quora’s Israel-Palestine peace community Unity is Strength is holding a Zoom meet and greet. The Medium community is invited. You can get to meet some of Quora’s prominent writers about the topic and learn a bit about us.
The open Zoom call will start at 10 AM Pacific time/1 PM New York time/8 PM Jerusalem time and will run for an hour and a half. RSVP here.
Immediately after, you are encouraged to join the organization Roots/Shorashim/Judur in its event “How the International Community can help create long-term change in Israel/Palestine.” …
When you code, you sometimes learn quite a bit from an extra pair of eyes reading your work, catching your mistakes, and telling you what to do better. In many courses, instructors or at least teaching assistants will manually read your code and provide this feedback. Some courses, however, are self-paced courses and you will not get customized feedback from an instructor. Even in these types of courses, there are ways for you to learn from others.
Check relevant question-and-answer sites
Even a very talented programmer who knows the documentation will often make programming mistakes, especially at the beginning. They may not immediately realize…
To provide teenage girls with positive STEM-related experiences, this campaign thinks outside the cube
In STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) fields, girls and boys participate at similar levels until age 11, but then girls start to drop out at much higher rates. By the time they reach the workforce, more than 75% of STEM practitioners are men. Deloitte Digital’s Heat partnered with AdCouncil and She Can STEM to create a new campaign, Dare to STEM. It’s intended for girls age 12–17, providing them with a woman-friendly STEM experience celebrating the challenges of the field.
As a woman who was accelerated in math and science as a teenager, I recall my own struggles. As I…
On Sunday, February 7, Israel-Palestine peace forum and United Religions Initiative (URI) Cooperation Circle Unity is Strength is holding a free, online public event for World Interfaith Harmony Week, “Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Personal Stories.” Start time is 10 AM Pacific time, 1 PM Eastern time, 8 PM Jerusalem time. Unity is Strength is a 2021 URI World Interfaith Harmony Week (WIHW) award winner. Event details and registration follow.
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Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all deeply rooted in the land known as Israel and Palestine. But too often, walls and barriers separate members of these religions, despite their many similarities…
The website Quora.com is known as a question-answering website, but about two years ago, it added a rather different new feature called Spaces. Spaces are basically collaborative blogs where a curated community can post and share information about a specific topic.
I started and maintain a number of popular Quora Spaces, some with over a million views and one with hundreds of thousands of followers. Spaces about topics people are passionate about can host strong communities. A Quora Space I started about the Israel-Palestine dynamic, Unity is Strength, has spread to WhatsApp and Discord. Recently, it became the first Space…
A good writing partner makes you more than the sum of your parts.
Especially at the beginning, the writing life is lonely. Freelancers can feel they are dropping their writing into a vacuum. Having been serious about writing for only a short time, they haven’t made connections with editors and pegged themselves in a professional niche.
They submit, submit, submit–and if they’re lucky, they get rejected, rejected, rejected. That is, they get a rejection if an editor thinks their writing is close enough to bother to write back and share their contact info for future submissions.
Don’t be so isolated
If you’re lucky enough to find a writing partner, it’s not quite so lonely.
A writing partner…
Eleanor North (not her real name) is a well-established New York real estate lawyer by day. By night, she is a wicked-smart writer who is one of the most-followed people on the social media site Quora. Recently, she got her first professional freelance writing gig. Eleanor reads at a supersonic pace, finishing books by the boatload. Plus, she is extremely physically active, immersing herself in martial arts. She is also extraordinarily devoted, never failing to support those she loves.
By her mid-thirties, Eleanor would be taken, or so one might think. But she has yet to find that very special…
Rebecca Sealfon
Former software engineer at Google, U.S. National Spelling Bee champion, and synesthete, based in New York, NY. Loves books, liberal Judaism, and nature.
